Comedian Magda Szubanski isn't shy about calling out abuse and discrimination where she sees it — but it wasn't always that way. Ahead of the release of her new series, Magda's Big National Health Check, she reflects on how she's been impacted by weight stigma, diet culture and what happens when you speak up.
From the moment I started to put on a little bit of weight, my parents were on me about it. And, God bless them, not in a kind way.
All through my teen years, I was yelled at in the street. People wouldn't always say it out loud — although they do that, too — but it can just be the sort of contemptuous way that you're treated, like you're seen as a kind of non-person.
